A toddler, a second baby on the way, running a business, a marathon-runner, working part time and completing a master’s degree… we ask Dominique Beach how it feels to be a student mum – juggling work, motherhood, hobbies and studying…
business
Mornings
At the age of 26, Katie Jones is running an award-winning company, selling cookies to increase the milk supply of breastfeeding mums. Boobbix lactation cookies have been endorsed by mums up and down the country. We talk mornings, breastfeeding and motherhood…
Mornings
“I like the flowers to dance and sing. I like to look at a bouquet and see the flowers as if they’ve got their hands in the air, twirling round and dancing.” Nik Southern, founder of Grace and Thorn, talks early trips to the flower market and a gothic Giles Deacon fashion show…
Mornings
She has two sons under the age of four and is running her own marketing consultancy business Creating Sense. We talk to Tina Marshall about early mornings, breastfeeding while pitching to a new (high profile) client and the relentlessness of motherhood…
Mornings
“Then all of a sudden, guilt arrived. Was I doing the right thing by Einar? Was I being a good enough mother, wife, human?” Libby Hobbs discusses the guilt she felt about launching And Hobbs – a beautiful homeware store – while looking after her baby…
Wellbeing
“I get up at 5.30am to do my morning meditation and gentle yoga practice,” says yoga teacher and co-founder of East of Eden yoga studios Naomi Costantino. But don’t worry: she also drinks wine and eats pizza. Here, we talk yoga, business and being a single mum…
Work Life
He took a university project importing Japanese animal suits and turned it into a £1m business. Tom Cohn talks about setting up Kigu, selling it and the dark period that ensued…
Work Life
As a working mum, Keira O’Mara found she was on a never-ending quest for a better work life balance. She addressed this by launching her own – now multi award-winning – company, Mama Designs. All while raising two kids singlehandedly…
Mornings
When you wake up in the early hours of the morning, unable to sleep for a rushing mind, what are you mulling over? We ask a new mum, a business owner, an office worker and a menopausal woman to share their early morning thoughts…
Wellbeing
Do you sometimes wish you could press ‘pause’ on life to get a few things done? Well, Helen Packham has written an article for us on exactly that: how to find more time, more energy and to increase productivity…